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First responders that are going away. another image coming in right now that shows again, this dramatic scene unfolding at the fort lauderdale hollywood international airport. earlier today, as this flight was taking off, bound for venezuela, the reports are that it had been seen leaking fuel before this fire began. again, we are seeing different vantage points of just the amount of smoke that erupted out of this engine fire. we are still waiting to get confirmation on the exact number of people that were on board this flight but we do have a statement from the faa, who just put out this. dyna...

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We don't have an exact number about how many people were on board except the fluid number that this plane could carry anywhere from about 180 people all the way up to 290 people. but we don't have exact details on the passenger flight list about how many passengers and crew members were on board. we also don't have specifics as of yet if anyone was injured or in need of medical assistance once they were able to get off this flight. but again, if you are just joining us, we are watching the images that are coming in to us out of fort lauderdale hollywood international, where a boeing 767 began ...

Happened there. bob hager, long time nbc aviation correspondent, and expert, joins me now. bob, when you look at the damage and how we see where that blaze may have originated on this flight, what does that say to you and especially about in such an early state of the manifest here, about to take off? it was just taxiing? >> yeah. i heard you say a moment ago there was something about a fuel leak, another plane had seen a fuel leak, is that what you said? or what you heard? >> yeah. that there was -- that it was reported that fuel was leaking from the aircraft before the fire started. this was...

Airline about passengers specifically. again, this flight was headed off to venezuela. bob, do you know what would the flight time be? would that roughly be about ten hours? >> boy, got me on that one. one thing i did think of, though, is how fortunate it is that whatever happened in this case, since he's on takeoff roll, apparently, happened before he got off the runway, because seeing that sort of damage there, if he had been in the liftoff phase, this really could have been catastrophic. >> you make such a good point, especially as we find out that this boeing 767, this is information about...